Anna VasinaFrom The Old Bucharest
George D. Florescu
1935
Eugénie Bidaut@eugbidaut these letters are inspired from the old Church Cyrillic tradition, that's why they look so wild.
@a_vsn Yes, I know a little about this style in Cyrillic thanks to Varya Goncharova (https://anrt-nancy.fr/en/projets/ti-gh-tle) and this article by @dobody https://www.delyo.be/blog/rants/2026-01-31-cyrillique-histoire/
But I didn't know it inspired latin letterings! This is very exciting. Are there other examples of this?
Dobody 🇺🇦🍉@eugbidaut
@a_vsn
Hey! Chipping in to say this particular Cyrillic Uncial style has existed in Romanian scriptures even since the local Church wrote in Cyrillic!
It's not far-fetched that the style might have bled through even after the official 1862 Latin adoption.
The floral motif, though, is definitely a stylistic choice not part of the usual "canon" (if exists).
Btw I invite you to check Romanian printed matter from the 19h century, very interesting amalgamations of Cyrillic-Latin :D
@eugbidaut Varya did a great job on researching the Vyaz' style, though I didn't see her full disertation, I can only assume that she relied on the Bulgarian and Eastern Slav sources, as they are more accessible in terms of language.
The Romanian case is somewhat unique, because their language is not part of the Slavic family, it is considered to have Latin roots, that's why at some point in history, they decided to detach from the Byzantine roots, thus rejecting the South-Slavic typographic tradition and switching towards the Western Latin Script in the 1860's (after multiple attempts of a Transitional Alphabet — Cyrillic + Latin). But then again, during the interwar period they decided to make some use of the old style flair in the Latin type. (long story short)
@a_vsn Thank you so much for the historical context and all the posts you've tagged me in. It makes me want to dive deeper into Romania's typographic heritage!
@eugbidaut that's great to hear! because it seems like this is a very underexplored field, typographicly speaking. And it is also a very political one, especially that Transitional period is pretty much overlooked to this day.